Hamid Alizadeh

Hamid Alizadeh was an Iranian Marxist and the editor of the leftist newspaper Mobarezeye Tabagathi. Alizadeh was involved with the Trotskyist International Marxist Tendency website, and he made video blogs about communism. On 15 December 2016, he said that the United States and Europe had caused the Syrian Civil War due to their imperialism, and he claimed that the West had left behind a "trail of barbarism" as a result of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria. Alizadeh also argued that these conflicts were reflections of capitalism, as he claimed that there was an inherent need for war in a capitalist society.